About Jonny

Jonny Hannah grew up in Dunfermline & studied at the Cowdenbeath College of Knowledge, Liverpool Art School & then the Royal College of Art. For the last twenty-one years he has been a freelance illustrator, & is represented by the Heart Agency in London & New York. His many clients include The Royal Mail, Domino Records & The St. Kilda Courier. He happily lives in Southampton, & teaches on the BA Illustration course at Solent School of Art, Design & Fashion. His studio has now returned to his back garden, in the loveliest of sheds, now HQ to the ‘Cakes & Ale Press’, a cottage industry publishing books, prints, posters, teatowels & badges. Recent publications have included ‘Greetings from Darktown’ published by Merrell, ‘The Captain’s Alphabet’ published by Design for Today & ‘Fast Cars & Ukuleles’, an ABC of this that & the other published by the Mainstone Press. He also recently illustrated ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ for The Folio Society, dressing up as Ignatius Reilly & playing jelly Roll Morton for added inspiration, whilst doing so … it’s what he calls ‘Method Illustration’. Think On …